Not a book

by Harriet Tarlo

Poetry. NAB comprises a trilogy of long poems reflective of the poet's interest in how the human form is situated in relation to land and environment. Here Tarlo employs an experimental poetic style to voice and engage her environmental concerns, as well as to provide a written forum for an individual's ever-evolving experience of the landscape. The result is a compelling piece of meditative wanderings, abstract textual formations and truly arresting poetry. "These three poems - Brancepeth Beck, Coast, Nab - are alive with airsounds, suncloud, and windlight. . . . [Tarlo] walks within the seasons' insistences, celebrating the interlinkings between human, as-well-as-human and local/wider open place" -- Maggie O'Sullivan.

72 pages

Published January 1, 2005

About the author

Harriet Tarlo is a poet and academic who lives in Holmfirth, West Yorkshire, and teaches creative writing at Sheffield Hallam University. Poetry publications include Love/Land (REM Press, 2003), Poems 1990–2003 (Shearsman Books, 2004), and Nab (Etruscan Books, 2005). Her poems about the Cumbrian coast appeared with Jem Southam’s Clouds Descending photographic exhibitions at the Lowry Gallery, Salford and Tullie House, Carlisle, in 2008–2009. Tarlo also writes academic essays on modernist and contemporary poetry with particular attention to gender and landscape and environment. Essays in books appear in critical volumes published by Edinburgh University Press, Salt, Palgrave and Rodopi. Recent critical and creative work appears in Pilot, Jacket, Rampike, English and the Journal of EcocriticismM.u< (JoE). Tarlo edited a special feature on “Women and Eco-Poetics” for How2 vol. 3, no. 2, and The Ground Aslant: An Anthology of Radical Landscape Poetry for Shearsman Press in 2011.

(from http://jacket2.org/content/harriet-tarlo)